Covered bonds offer best return despite falling liquidity

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Covered bonds offer best return despite falling liquidity

Covered bonds are the only asset class to have provided investors with a positive total return this year according to the independent index provider, Markit. However this positive picture is somewhat counterbalanced by data from e-trading platform, MarketAxess, which shows traded volumes are down sharply.

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